Level: 3
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau
Main Event
Day: 2a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Suncity Cup Finale Macau
Buy-in
6,600 HKD
Entries
221
Level
28
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
75,000
Registration Closed – Game On!
Level 2
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
The field has grown to 105 entrants but will not grow any further today as registration is now closed. Of those 105 entries 92 remain in the running and cards are now back in the air.
Break Time
Level 2
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
The clock has been paused for 20-minutes for the 2017 Suncity Cup presentation ceremony and while the field has grown to 101 entrants only 94 of them are left in the running and they will be back in action in 20-mins.
Shi Doubles Wei
Level 2
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
We are not sure if the last hand we reported on had anything to do with this one, but it was played directly afterward and we are sure that Jin Giang Shi still had that hand on his mind going into this one.
We are not sure of the exact pre-flop betting but know that Liu Wei was the man to open the action with a raise from under-the-gun. Shi was the small blind this time around and fired out a raise, Wei shipped in his 53,500 stack and Shi snapped him off.
Jin Giang Shi: 
Liu Fei: 
Liu was the at-risk player but held the best hand and the 
flop left Shi needing to hit running cards to win. That did not happen, with the 
turn and 
river completing the hand.
Shi is hemorrhaging chips presently and unless he stems the bleeding then beer all over his side of the table is the least of his worries and he dropped down to 51,000 while Fei climbed to 107,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
107,000 | |
|
51,000 | -49,000 |
Triple for Leow
Level 2
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
A huge pot has recently played out that saw Ivan Leow bag himself a triple up and what a hand it was. China’s Liu Wei was the man to spark the fuse with an early position open to 4,000 and the action folded around to Leow on the button.
The Malaysian was one of the shorter stacks at this point with 29,500 but that did not stop him from firing out a 10,000 raise and the action was on big blind Jin Giang Shi who made the call. With the action back on Wei he reached for chips, but not for calling with and he three-bet to 50,000 in total.
Leow quickly shoved and Shi re-shoved for close to 130,000. Wei did not look happy about it as Shi had him covered, but after some time in the tank he grudgingly folded leaving Shi free to rake in the 20,500 side pot.
Jin Giang Shi: 
Ivan Leow: 
The Chinese player would need this rebate as, despite having the lead when the cards were turned over the 
flop shot Leow right out in front. So shocked was Shi at the flop that he spilt his can of San Miguel all over the table and nearly got beer all over his cards.
While this mess was cleaned up it was back to the action and the 
turn and 
river saw Leow triple to 91,500 while Shi took a hit and dropped down to roughly 100,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
100,000 | 10,000 |
|
91,500 | -76,900 |
|
|
53,700 | 53,700 |
Alvarado Battling Back
Level 2
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
It appears the Mexico’s JC Alvarado was unable to keep up the blistering run of form he closed out Day 1E with and his 215,000-plus stack has shrunk a little, but he has just padded it out some courtesy of Weicong Tang.
It was Alvarado who was the pre-flop raiser, making it 2,600 to go from middle postion and Tang (button) and Korea’s Jeong Won Seo (big blind) made the call to take the action three-way to a flop of 
.
Both Seo and Alvarado checked and Tang took a stab of 4,000 from the button. Seo made a quick fold, but Alvarado was going nowhere and slid in the call to take the action heads-up to the 
turn.
The Mexican checked once more and Tang shot him surreptitious side long glance and checked it back. The 
river saw Alvarado lead for the first time in the hand since his pre-flop raise and threw out a bet of 8,500 and Tang folded immediately.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
175,000 | -52,800 |
|
|
145,600 |
Johnny Chan in the House
Level 2
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Johnny Chan is one of the game’s greats and is another Day 2A new entrant and is a man who should need no introduction but we’ll give him one anyway. The two-time World Series of Poker Main Event champion and ten-time bracelet winner has not long taken his seat over on table seven and has just posted his big blind.
Macau’s Sam Cheong does not seem scared about raising the poker legend’s big blind and he opened to 2,800 from the cutoff and the action folded around to small blind Victor Chong.
The Malaysian player thought long and hard about it, and the re-raised to 10,600 in total and the action was on Chan, who folded immediately. With the action back on Cheong he reached for chips and splashed out a huge stack of blue 5,000 chips making it 100,000 to go and Chong quickly let it go.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
181,000 | 12,200 |
|
98,800 | 98,800 |
|
46,000 | -10,500 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Kavrakov Plays Position; Lai Rails Chenghan
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
While the level length has now increased to 60-minutes some of the players are not using it to play more hands, but to take their time over the hands they do play, at least in the hands we have seen so far and the think tank appears to be a popular place to be.
We caught a hand that took a good 10-minutes to play out, and we only got to see the flop. It was Taiwan’s Wu Chiayan who opened the action with a raise to 3,000 from middle position and picking up two customers with one of the new Day 2A arrivals and Macau’s Sio Fat Lau making the call before another Day 2A face, Atanas Kavrakov, squeezed to 15,000 from the button.
This was enough to get all but Lau to bow out, but not before our other new arrival spent five minutes in the tank before folding and when the action finally got to Lau he quickly slid in the extra and it was heads-up to a flop of 
.
Lau checked this rather arid flop over to Kavrokov, who wasted no time in firing out a continuation bet of 13,000, which was enough to take it down when Lau mucked and Kavrakov added 21,900 to his stack without showdown.
Over on table six we caught another new Day 2A arrival in action with Hong Kong’s Ben Lai juicing it up to 8,500 on the button over the top of a 2,300 Renjung Yang early position open and a call from Hong Chenghan on in the cutoff.
While Yang quickly got out of the way Chenghan chewed over the decision and decided to go for it, moving his all-in for 40,000 in total. Lai made a quick call and the cards were turned over.
Hong Chenghan: 
Ben Lai: 
Chenghan was in bad shape and it got a whole lot worse on the 
flop. The 
turn left the Taiwanese player drawing dead and he hit the rail while Lai got his tournament off to a great start and climbed to 145,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
145,000 | 145,000 |
|
121,900 | 121,900 |
|
|
82,000 | -15,700 |
|
|
Busted |
Cards in the Air
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
It’s game time here at the Poker King poker room here at Venetian Macau and the 69 Day 2A qualifiers are all in their seats and the cards are now in the air. These seasoned survivors have been joined by 17 direct Day 2A entries to grow the field to 86 and with late entry open until the end of level 2.